Word: geronimo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issued regarding his attitude toward a possible larger expedition. The situation was somewhat reminiscent, though on a much smaller scale, of General Pershing's 1916 entrance into Mexican territory in unsuccessful search for Bandit Villa. The Apaches sought are descendants of those Red Indians who under chieftain Geronimo were dispersed by General Miles, in whose force was one Surgeon Leonard Wood...
Forty years ago, a cruel Indian chief named Geronimo was at the head of the Apaches in Southern Arizona. His desperate soldiers killed many a paleface, scalped many a miner howling with despair and fury, and rode away, across the prairie. At last a U. S. regiment fought Geronimo's men, and beat them. Most of the Indians were captured. Those who were not one afternoon rode their little ponies slowly across the border into Mexico, up the steep trails into the mountains, and fortified a camp...
...public which had nearly forgotten the Wood who captured Geronimo, the Wood who cleaned up Cuba, the Wood who hobnobbed with kings and kaisers, saw him depart for the Philippines with the rank of Governor General. Babbitts, great and small, gave but a slangy moment's pity to the man who had "missed out." For so it seemed. In the Philippines no glory could be gained...
...which he was attached provided that no interne could perform an operation. One day the ambulance brought in an injured child. Wood operated to save life, saved it, was fired. So he went into the Army, was sent out west, applied for a regular fighting job, got it, chased Geronimo, last of the Indian fighters, shared with General Lawton full credit for his capture...
Crazy Horse, Lame Deer, Spotted Eagle, Elk Horn, Broad Road, Natchez and, most bloody of all, Geronimo the Apache and, most formidable, Sitting Bull- down they went, years ago, before Big Chief Bear Coat...